PSY322H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter Week 5: Implicit Stereotype, Aversive Racism
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Aversive racism and medical interactions with black patients: a field study. Individuals are consciously reporting how they feel about a certain race. It causes for an unproductive dynamic between black and (in this case) white people: predictions, explicit prejudice (cid:449)ould (cid:271)e predi(cid:272)ted (cid:271)(cid:455) a ph(cid:455)si(cid:272)ia(cid:374)"s per(cid:272)eptio(cid:374)s o(cid:374) their behaviour towards a patient. Implicit prejudice would be predicted by/related to the patient"s perception of the interaction with their physician (and of course explicit prejudice would have an effect on their perception too) Interactions would be the least positive when the physician was high in implicit prejudice and low in implicit prejudice. Participants: 150 black patients, mostly women and an average middle-age, 15 physicians three white, and the rest indian, pakistani, or asian. Procedure: doctor testing, tested on explicit racial prejudice survey and race iat for implicit bias (both before encounter, result: slight, nonsignificant preference on iat for blacks over whites on average.
